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Lars Kaleschke is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science. The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies, and climate change, integrating aspects such as permafrost and methane hydrate phenomena into their research.

Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Aerospace Engineering. Key topics in their work cover:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Lars Kaleschke has published research in multiple scientific venues, with a strong presence in journals such as The Cryosphere, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Communications Earth & Environment. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary and geoscientific nature of their investigations.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Stefan Hendricks, Xiangshan Tian-Kunze, Robert Ricker, Donald K. Perovich, and Sebastian Gerland, each contributing to numerous joint publications.

Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice," 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Arctic Report Card 2020: Sea Ice," 2020, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • "The Arctic," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR‐E 89‐GHz channels

    G. Spreen;L. Kaleschke;G. Heygster

  • Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

    W. R. Simpson;R. von Glasow;K. Riedel;P. Anderson

  • SSM/I Sea Ice Remote Sensing for Mesoscale Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Analysis

    L. Kaleschke;Christof Lüpkes;T. Vihma;J. Haarpaintner

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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  • A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data

    Robert Ricker;Robert Ricker;Stefan Hendricks;Lars Kaleschke;Xiangshan Tian-Kunze

  • Frost flowers on sea ice as a source of sea salt and their influence on tropospheric halogen chemistry

    L. Kaleschke;A. Richter;J. Burrows;O. Afe

  • Sea ice thickness retrieval from SMOS brightness temperatures during the Arctic freeze‐up period

    L. Kaleschke;X. Tian-Kunze;Nina Maaß;M. Makynen

  • SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification

    Xiangshan Tian-Kunze;Lars Kaleschke;Nina Maaß;Marko Mäkynen

  • Intercomparison of passive microwave sea ice concentration retrievals over the high-concentration Arctic sea ice

    Søren Andersen;Rasmus Tonboe;Lars Kaleschke;Georg Heygster

  • Comprehensive isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrate in the Atlantic Ocean boundary layer from 65°S to 79°N

    Samuel Morin;Joël Savarino;Markus M. Frey;Markus M. Frey;Florent Domine

  • Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice determined from MODIS satellite data using an artificial neural network

    Anja Rösel;Anja Rösel;Lars Kaleschke;Gerit Birnbaum

  • Seasonal modification of the Arctic Ocean intermediate water layer off the eastern Laptev Sea continental shelf break

    Igor A. Dmitrenko;Sergey A. Kirillov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Rebecca A. Woodgate

  • Exploring Arctic Transpolar Drift During Dramatic Sea Ice Retreat

    Jean-Claude Gascard;Jean Festy;Hervé le Goff;Matthieu Weber

  • Empirical sea ice thickness retrieval during the freeze-up period from SMOS high incident angle observations

    Marcus Huntemann;Georg Heygster;Lars Kaleschke;Thomas Krumpen

  • Particle sedimentation patterns in the eastern Fram Strait during 2000-2005: Results from the Arctic long-term observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Eduard Bauerfeind;Eva-Maria Nöthig;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Kirsten Fahl

  • Exceptional melt pond occurrence in the years 2007 and 2011 on the Arctic sea ice revealed from MODIS satellite data

    Anja Rösel;Lars Kaleschke

  • Thin ice and storms: Sea ice deformation from buoy arrays deployed during N-ICE2015

    Polona Itkin;Gunnar Spreen;Gunnar Spreen;Bin Cheng;Martin Doble

  • Sea ice leads in the Arctic Ocean: Model assessment, interannual variability and trends

    Q. Wang;S. Danilov;T. Jung;T. Jung;Lars Kaleschke

  • ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission: from science to operational applications.

    S Mecklenburg;M Drusch;L Kaleschke;N Rodriguez-Fernandez

  • Assimilating SMOS sea ice thickness into a coupled ice-ocean model using a local SEIK filter

    Qinghua Yang;Svetlana N. Losa;Martin Losch;Xiangshan Tian-Kunze

  • Lead detection in Arctic sea ice from CryoSat-2: quality assessment, lead area fraction and width distribution

    A. Wernecke;Lars Kaleschke

  • The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf

    Thomas Krumpen;Florent Birrien;Frank Kauker;Thomas Rackow

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen
Kirsten Fahl
Kirsten Fahl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gunnar Spreen
Gunnar Spreen University of Bremen
Michael Klages
Michael Klages Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hans-Werner Jacobi
Hans-Werner Jacobi Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas Soltwedel
Thomas Soltwedel Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stefan Hendricks
Stefan Hendricks Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency

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